The formation of teams was the main focus of this weeks lecture. I am in a group with Lee Bowers, a student of Digital Design. With Lee being a Digital Design student and me being a Game Design student I believe we will make a good pair as, being students of different courses, we’ll be able to cover different aspects of the project that we’re more suited to.
To communicate, we will be using Discord. To share any files we might need to send to each other, we will be using Google Drive.
Once teams were formed, we were shown various different projects complete by students in previous years. I wrote down the names of these ideas and what they proposed to use as inspiration. The ideas varied greatly showing how broad the possibilities were for this module.
The first ideas I had were for either a business or a game. I wrote down specific elements that would need to be created to have a fleshed out game or business.
During the lecture, the various groups were asked about any ideas they may have had. Many were said and I wrote down a few I thought might be inspiring. I also remembered the SWOT analysis method for evaluating ideas during the lecture and wrote that down so I could evaluate future ideas with it.
During the lab session, Lee and I bounced ideas off of each other until we landed on a somewhat solid idea. We know we’re making a game. Other elements are still unsettled but having decided even this, I am confident that we will be able to put together a solid idea.
After the lab session, I created a mind map. This map features a small example of what the game might be like in the top left and a large mind map in the middle.